Big Spender: $25,000 Summer Camp

Charles Passy joins Lunch Break with a look at whether a summer camp in Switzerland is worth the $25,000 cost. Photo: Getty Images.

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... I ... what you get at eight twenty five thousand dollars to twenty five thousand summer camp well for starters you get a ... lot of frequent flier miles and pushy happened so that in Switzerland ... which else that thank you to discuss the latest in a big Spender column ... wow ... twenty five thousand at the most hits and maybe your colleges someplace well or or or about a year of a very expensive to have anything to buy exactly ... right so it's in Switzerland or else about the camp ... aam is a camp for seven to sixteen year olds on ... the track the very diverse international coed very diverse international group of campers from Saudi Arabia to South America ... and you know that definitely adds some luxury elements you can do a shopping excursion to surrender its you can go skiing and snowboard compelling on repelling or the monitoring of doubt and and and and I think the funniest thing is that they don't stay in the traditional cabins are bonds they stay in the hotel upper twenty five thousand the title I'm feeling it in a bunk bed right ... right of the hotel's pool of writers health doesn't sound so elegant um ... and um ... and then obviously you're sort of you're you're getting exposed to European culture ... the other big thing they get from a very practical standpoint is pretty intense language lessons understand English German French Spanish five mornings when my college education ... it is um ... I don't know whether the campers appreciate spending all the warnings of learning a foreign language but that's deftly part of the program as well he now you know I mean apart can points from a write up what it was pretty like I went to camp but it was sort of talent or dinner right and they knew for sure what happens in the slot that for a part of the experience ... this is not there must be something in between levels right between ... like that and cancer fight back ... this this or the sweet spot for American camping somewhere between eight to thirteen thousand ... on and that that twelve to thirteen thousand dollars level which is half the cost here you really do get a lot of activities a lot of it to be equestrian can be ... of wakeboarding that saw on TV comic book illustration um I like it will really means is often held up as the example of this and or some other main camps ... aam and those wandered ... around ... twelve to thirteen thousand to eighty thousand ... I've told you get pretty much almost the same thing but little more rustic so yet there is no reason you have to go to Switzerland to enjoy the summer and for parents to enjoy a summer without their children ... how is this campaign around on this is been around for for for a few decades it's it's it's a family run king of ... the campers when you look of their Facebook page the campers to block or so and I have to say we would not love spending the summer and in the mountains of Switzer Switzerland so it's the it's not ... that different a stock that beat upon